I have had a couple of complaints about my silence lately. The easy cop-out would be to say that I went to Burma from Chaing Mai (top of this map) and the evil fascists who run that country don't allow Internet use there. In fact my Swedish friend Mia was waiting for me in the middle of Rangoon. I however was in bed in Chaing Mai with a terrible case of backache. It hasn't really gone away

Christmas in Laos.

OK this may sound like the title to a new Disney movie starring Goldie Hawn and some computer generated chipmunks, but it's much worse. It's the true hideous story of how in Vang Vieng, Laos, Lish Woodgate survived an assasination attempt three times by the diabolically-intentioned Ann Larson (OK two were by me) and then foolishly decided that due to her injuries she was

I'm one in a million! Blogger (which is the program that writes this journal) has 1 million users now....but you lot don't care about that! I have just escaped Laos and made it to Chang Mai in Thailand, and boy is that a re-emergence into civilization after where I've been lately! No photos yet, but I'll get some text and photos up while I'm here in the next few days. For those of you scoring

Sapa to Laungh Prabahn -- Well it seems so long ago that I left Vietnam that it's difficult to write too much about it. My trip to the beautiful hill country of Sapa was mostly a dud, as the weather closed in and there was 5 days of consecutive fog. Sapa is a hill town near the Chinese border in north-west Vietnam that used to be a center of ethnic minority culture, but is fast turning into a

Quick note--there have been some problems with the archiviving function on Blogger...so you may not be able to see entries before early December. Hopefully I've fixed it but please email me if you can't see earlier entries (and their links to photos) and want to.